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Nov./Dec. 2022
Poets & Writers "5 Over 50 Debut Authors" Feature. Nov/Dec. 2022 Issue; Reading & Panel recording; Bookshop.org.
2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "More Than an Acquired Taste,"Flash Frog, May 2022.
2023 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Foreign Objects," Hennepinn Review, June 2022.
2023 Best Small Fictions Nomination for "Little Deaths in the Kitchen," The Ilanot Review, Fall 2022.
CLMP Poetry 2022 List - Poetry Chapbooks Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? (Small Harbor Publishing, April 2022).
2024 Children's Literature Hawai`i Conference Steering Committee member
Oct. 2022
Prospect Street Writers House Residency, North Bennington, Vermont. Oct. 1-14, 2022.
2023 Best of the Net Poetry Nomination. "When Authorities say 'Be Aware of Your Surroundings,'" SWWIM, Aug. 2021.
2023 Best of the Net Flash Fiction Nomination. "Foreign Objects," Hennepinn Review, June 2022.
Aug/Sept. 2022
Cooper, Irene. "Someone Is Going to Get Eaten: A Review of Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group?" in Whale Road Review, Issue 28, Fall 2022.
Winner Micro Competition & Author Interview Smokelong Quarterly Special Ed. "Mother Warns Us of Men"
At The Ogre's Table: A Red Ogre Review Anthology, Ed. Matthew Bullen. Barnes & Noble link
Nomination Hawai`i State Poet Laureate Program
July 2022
Housebreak Book Tour Bristol & London, UK Bad Betty Press 5th Anniversary
Housebreak - "July's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA & Literature," Lambda
Housebreak Virtual Launch Party Sponsored by Bereket Writing Community. Founding & Managing Ed. Sevde Kaldıroğlu. July 30, 2022.
The Mother Who Couldn't Describe a Thing if She Could: Hybrid Collection, Selected by Harbor Editions (2023).
Prospect Street Writer's House Artist Residency, Bennington, Vermont. Awarded Oct. 1-14, 2022.
June 2022
Smokelong Quarterly Summer Workshop
Ohio State Press Non/Fiction Collection Prize 2022: Semifinalist The Mother Who Couldn’t Describe A Thing If She Could & Factory Girl. Michelle Herman, Prize Judge.
WigLeaf Long List “Here There are No Water Buffalos” in FLASH BOULEVARD, Aug. 2021, EIC @francinewitte!
April/May 2022
Poetry Reader Cobra Milk Mag
Harbor Editions Book Release Reading, April 19, 2022, Video recording here
Honorable Mention "Maximum Allowance," 2021 CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award, judged by Ira Sukrungruang.
Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? noted on CLMP's "A Reading List for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month 2022," May 2022.
Feb. 2022
Asst. CNF Editor JMWW
Finalist "More Than an Acquired Taste" in The Blue Frog Flash Fiction Prize - forthcoming Apr. 2022
Shortlisted "Fails to Understand Requirements" in 2022 NFFD Microfiction Competition - Feb. 2022
Nov. 2021
Poetry Reading at The Aldeburgh Festival: Nov. 4-7, 2021.
"Place, Perception, and Play."Bad Betty Poets followed by Open Mic with Kirsten Luckins, S. Niroshini, Shareen K. Murayama, Joel Auterson.
Oct. 2021
Poetry Reading at The Gloucester Poetry Festival: Poets for the Planet. Oct. 25, 2021. Virtual registration link.
Social Media Manager for The Adroit Journal.
July 2021
"Thursday Night at Lucky Liquor's Store" winner in Fractured Lit. 2021 Anthology Contest judged by Kathy Fish
"We, Too, Landed on Mars" nominated Best of the Net Essay 2021 Olney Magazine
"For the Record" nominated Best of the Net Poetry 2021 Agapanthus Collective, Issue 1
CNF Reader for JMWW Journal
June 2021
Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group, chapbook of poems winner of The Marginalia Series for publication by Harbor Editions. Mar. 2022
"Defect" selected and published National Flash Fiction Day June 2021
May 2021
House Break, collection of poems selected for publication by Bad Betty Press. July 2022.
"Fig and Yield" Honorable Mention CRAFT CNF Contest 2020 Judged by Joy Castro
"Fig and Yield" Finalist Ray Ventre Nonfiction Prize, Passages North Judged by Natalie Lima
Jan. 2021
"Arrhythmia" Published in: MORIA Literary Magazine, Nominated and Winner Best Microfiction 2021
Featured Poet in January '21 for Negative Capability Press
July 2020
Poetry reader for The Adroit Journal
Readings & Events
2023
Feb. 22, 2023 Wild & Precious Virtual Reading. 2pm HST
2022
Dec. 8, 2022. Poets & Writers 5 Over 50 Debut Authors Virtual Reading & Panel.
July 14, 2022. London, England. John's Hoxton.
July 13, 2022 Bristol, England. Strange Brew. Housebreak Book Launch. Bad Betty Press.
April 19, 2022. Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? Book Launch. Small Harbor Publishing. Founder & Ed. Allison Blevins.
2021
Nov. 6, 2021 Poetry In Aldeburgh Virtual reading
Oct. 15, 2021 7:30pm UK time - Gloucester Poetry Festival, Director Ziggy Dicks
July 17, 2021 Harpy Hybrid Review Issue V
Feb. 26, 2021 Athena & MORIA Lit. Magazine, Woodbury University"'Further Down the Page': An Interview with Shareen K. Murayama" by Alexis Ash
Feb. 22, 2021 Interview Backstory of a Poem with Chris Rice Cooper Blo
Jan. 2021 Featured Poet Negative Capability Press
2020
Oct. 2020 Cobra Milk Mag Issue 1 Release Party
2017
Sept. 2017 Bamboo Ridge Press, Wine & Words Reading, Manoa Valley Theater. Honolulu, HI
July 2017 Bamboo Ridge Press Na Mea Bookstore Reading. Honolulu, HI
July 2017 Lois Pohl Art Gallery Reading. Honolulu, HI
May 2017 Pechakucha 20x20: Muse. Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House. Honolulu, HI
May 2017 Hawaii Book & Music Festival, Civic Grounds, Honolulu Hale. Honolulu, HI